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Co Covering Home Newspaper of Hills THFHFRUD Delegations set for Thursday Confrontations due on gravel pits issue By RICHARD staff writer Hills region and the Sixth Line resident group arc all ending lions meet week he provincial Cabinet stand reviewing Bill an amendment the Pits and Quarries Act of 1971 Spokesmen for nil three par lies say they are concerned thai the proposed amendment which will be given third and final if tee mikes its report gives control over wiyside pit locations and to the CAS will continue fight for funding The Children Aid Society will continue fighting for funds to cover last year operating deficit dc spite the provincial govern rejection of a recent last ditch appeal The board of directors of CAS met Thursday In a special closeddoor session to discuss the latest communique from community and social services minister Keith Nor ton Mr Norton overruled the recommendations of the Child Welfare Review Committee which supported the society contention that special prob lems in should make it eligible for funding beyond the provincial guidelines The CAS board drew up five recommendations Thurs days meeting including a call to meet the three MPPs for Region Jim Snow lion Reed and George Kerr to acquaint them with the CAS position The board will also meet stuff to plan strategy CAS confronted a deficit of based on the budget approved by the region and the society has no means of raising the money other than through province and the region on an basis White the CAS has the third highest workload In the province the pcrcnpita cost is lowest the report on Child Welfare Review Com said Staff members average a caseload of cases to theprovin average of cases Then his been an of TOO per cent In the number of handled by the society in last five years the report The province his put a freeze on the hiring of staff for CAS which the committee suggested should be lifted CAS if f salaries were limited to an Increase of three per cent in 1979 and the report recom mends that staff should be granted raises similar to those giver ministry staff This would mean a increase of 7 percent The largest single Hem in the budget which went over what wis allotted for It was the cost of children care The pro vince has agreed to meet child Industrial park set for Acton Town council his approved the of acres of in the northern part of Acton from rural lo industrial general to permit the develop ment of an industrial park 1 he property owned by Construction Ltd of Acton is located directly 25 and the CNR hue According to planning director Mario Venditti park is intended as an expansion of the industrial basin in Acton The town does not have a sufficient industrial base at the present he told planning list week mil Harry Levy agreed the project was something that was definitely needed in the area According to Mr Vcndilti the exact amount of land lhat would be used by tenant of industrial park is not yet We would allow the owner to ere lots for mis Local farmer charged in asparagus dispute A Hills resident will be going to challenge a marketing board order to destroy a crop he is no longer harvesting The Asparagus Growers Marketing Board has charged Casey Boss of Acton with growing asparagus with out a licence and with refusing to allow board employees to measure the amount of acre age on which his asparagus Is growing Mr Bass pleaded not guilty in Milton provincial court Mon day will be going to trial March 14 He stopped harvesting his crop in 1077 Mr Boss said because he had no wish to be invoh with the newly form marketing board which he said would charge him an acre for a licence to grow his crop but offers him nothing in The marketing board was DOMINION TRIAL DATE DELAYED AGAIN Thr idling of the trial date for three men charged with murder in connection with Ihe Dominion Hole fire In has been postponed until February IS Leonard and Michael are charged with second degree murder following the death of Howard a permanent resident of Dominion Hotel following a fire which completely destroy ed the building August IS Mr was the owner of the hole The three men were arrested January 28 and have appeared In court three times el date for the trial bul each time Ml three men are now released on bail who needed assistance with their marketing problems he explained He however sells as a fresh grower supplying stores such as the Food Term in Toronto Fresh growers had no problems In marketing and are therefore receiving no benefit from the board Mr Boss says he has been growing asparagus on roughly four acres of his acre farm for the past years Although he isn I harvesting it asparagus roots arc still in ground He is going court fight board first but he can still circumvent their control if he his asparagus acreage In half a clots Apparently I ran rent it out in half acre lots and no one can touch me he said I like to figh for my rights It seems the board his the to come in and destroy my crop if I don I have a licence The Dutch im migrant has been farming on the Fifth Line south or High wav for of his years in Canada TAKE THAT are often accused back stabbing Margaret creative movement class lust Saturday students got an opportunity to how it done Ms leaches Ihe class part of program at Presbyterian Church in Georgetown Herald photo the standing committee fol lowing in impassioned plea by Roy Booth who noted that the town his a consider able number of wayside pits Tonj spokesman for the rcsiricnl group told The he will be meeting with the standing committee at i m Thursday advocate more municipal involvement in the siting and operation of The region expresses con about the let m a report it is sending with a committee headed by to meet with committee at pm Thursdiy The precedence of the Hill overall other legislation implies a dis respect for legitimate concerns the report said Authorities and agencies charged with enforcing such necessary ind valuable acts as the Environmental Protection the Water Re the Conservation s Nngnr i Planning Act ind the Planning Act would hive no control over pits ind quarries operations and except those con the minister of natural resources ishes to include in his I The report also expressed concern iboul licence ippeal procedures ugh licence lion be referred the Municipal Board for a hearing the board is required to report to the minister of resources who still makes the final decision the report noted Where either the municipality or the public wish to appeal the ministry decision no appeal mechanism is available A new bulletin from the Foundation for Aggregate Slu dies received and filed at Monday council meeting took a more radical stance stating licences should only be issued if municipality wants the jut official plan and after the ministry the environment his reviewed the social and environmental impact of the proposed pit The foundation s bulletin noted that the submissions to the standing commit tee would be last opportunities for members of the public and municipal officials influence of Bill 127 LIFELINE MEETING TONIGHT Tom who organized I language classes for Nation with ling one his sludtnts The various sponsor roups and mi of Ihe public are invited to attend meeting to discuss si of the would be sponsors whose families have not vet at a meeting tonight Wednesday at St Johns Lulled Church Herald photo by I or Taj I r Local man charged after shooting incident Today is Wednesday A Georgetown has been with and entering after in incident in which two Peel Regional Po lice officer fatally a man who had forced his way into an attacked a con stable with baseball bat Robert John Hurst a recent parolee from Collins Bay Penitentiary died after being shot by police at ibout II m Saturday He was paroled while serving a six ye ir sentence for rape 1iul 26 of Drive has been charged breaking and entering He is alleged to be the second mon who with Mr Hurst was at an early morning party in a floor apartment in the area of Street and the in Mississau Del Richard Woods and Constable Donald Mclnlyre 12 were investigating an as complaint made by two women in apartment who claimed they hid been assault ed during the parly While policemen were in the living room the apart two men burst through the door One of the men began to swing a baseball bat near Constable Mclntyres head He was also armed with a foot long butcher knife which he wore at his side Both officers yelled warn Urban studys terms complete as region seeks plans deferral liv TH Willi terms of for the li Georgetown Urban Study expected it Ihe cud of this month council Insiskcd tin proviiitnl mm of lodefir approval of the region plan is it pertains to laud owned G and G Garrelt I When council quested tht the request of the town region council agreed to support of ipprov for in il plan for lands siuth and wis of the Urban Ana it its December m cling abutting such ire II considered the request ecommuided tint I The ike defer f the Gar propcrH at the cist intersection of Road 3 and Trafalgar Road list week it also asked 1 proceed wilh for tin ltd located al the southeast inter section of Road and the line Hills reel or Mario told the Monday the terms of reference for the urban being prepared region 1 with the would be rtady the did of this month or early in Ftbruarv Mr said upon completion the terms of reference will lie pre tnledfor public viewing it as vet unspecified dale The study is intended to resolve concerns over the own s ability to dm lop rural linds in the immcdiale Georgetown including owned S McLaughlin Associates I I on a slaff report which concluded that tin priptrly Is i a similar to other requests is ntiguous to the c in urban ire as tin phi Tin is not tin Transit questionnaire The towns special committee the ftasibility of introducing a transportation system for the disable in Hills requests that everyone who has not yet received i questionnaire on the transportation the clerk office or the public office for further The questionnaire have been scnl out oer the isl few weeks to disabled people who might make use of the service and to agencies and community groups who work w disabled wire Killanin to support boycott Former i figure impions Oil and Mini Jclinik ml to see the moved In a teller im to tin dint f the Committee the called for support of Margaret Thatchtr and Canadian Prime Minister Joe lark taking site of the summtr s to site than scow or Sonet Tit John Soviet pa i tool and would sheer for the western rid pirtike in tht sanies under the circumstances of this nature far outweighs retaliation fine they wrote rd Ho ill w IOC lo ben me vpot is well known that tin IOC I is intervened for political in the past 1 il Hitler Africa or mire recently tin Toman issut While sun the it polities spi ni mix undtr normal Soviet Union s military of is they said ings at the man and when he ignored them the officers moved back drew their guns and fired several times The oilier man who t take pirl in the fled the Mr Hurst was pronounced dead on General Hospital A man matching the description of the second suspect was found a bout an hour later police discovered a second baseball bit near the build Mr Dufrane was appear in provincial court yesterday in Brampton but no details were available press time An inquest will be held Into the shooting death which Is first in the history of the six year old regional force Force Electric rezoned property is section i pi in build a shopping i is pirt of Iht phi a in sitt has nit vtt been veil i or of Thf Force leclrtc properly is ited Fellms St Mill St and Church SI The 1 depart mi it IK of commercial strict Acton is a way of private development provide a wider of commercial opportunities to tic rcsidenls of Acton In a aid loea inn without incurring a m for or public services